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Through the Night is a moving documentary film with a multi-year campaign for social change. 

The campaign is an opportunity to strengthen our movements and society by centering mothers and all those who do the work of mothering, and to bring together support for caregivers to feel held, heard, and seen as people, rather than only valued for their labor.

 
 
 

CAMPAIGN GOALS

Relaunching in 2026 to Center Providers & Transforming Care Infrastructure

Shift the Value Paradigm: Affirm, celebrate, and center the expertise and leadership of providers who sustain our communities.

  • Fuel Provider Rest & Healing: Create restorative, joyful spaces for independent educators.

  • Drive Accountability: Invite municipal decision-makers and executive agencies to learn about FCC.

  • Activate Parent-Provider Coalitions: Build collective power between working parents and independent educators to demand care infrastructure that fits non-traditional schedules.

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The 2020 mission of the film’s social impact campaign was to care for caregivers through these goals:

  • Organizing Tool: Support the work of organizations leading campaigns to improve the lives of caregivers, women of color, and working families.

  • Communal Care for Caregivers: Create and curate supportive communal experiences for caregivers.

  • Reframe Mothering within movement spaces, as a verb and the most radical and subversive in our communities.

 

ACTIONS

CELEBRATE PROVIDERS

  • Host a Watch Party: Use our free Watch Party Kit to bring the film to your community, union, or organization. Check our Watch page to learn where to view the film.

JOIN THE MOVEMENT

  • Access Provider and Family Resources: Explore wellness guides, childcare navigation tools, and advocacy materials below.

  • Amplify Caregiver Voices: Follow us on social media and share your own story and tag us!

REST

LEARN 

WATCH

DONATE

 
 

WATCH PARTY TOOLKITS

These step-by-step guides are designed to help you organize a screening with your community.

 

#1: WATCH PARTY KIT

Inside you’ll find tips and suggestions on:

  • Planning and promoting your event

  • How to watch the film

  • Online discussion platform suggestions and sample discussion questions

  • How to spread the word about the film after the discussion

  • Resources for your community

The Watch Party Kit Is Being Updated
 
 
 

2020 LEGISLATIVE TOOLKIT

Inside you’ll find:

  • A case study for a screening we organized with film partners to educate New York state legislators

  • Planning tips, discussion prompts, and resources for organizing a screening to educate decision makers

Get the Legislative Toolkit
 
 
 

ORGANIZATIONS & RESOURCES

 
 

For Childcare Providers & Educators

WELLNESS & WELL-BEING

  • UFT Provider Wellness Resources: Dedicated wellness tools, mental health support, and community networks tailored for home-based family childcare providers.

  • Master and Thrive Podcast: A podcast created by a provider, for providers—hosted by Tiffany Diaz. Grounded in community care, professional growth, and personal empowerment.

TRAINING & NETWORK BUILDING

ORGANIZATIONS

  • All Our Kin trains, supports, and sustains family child care educators.

  • Day Care Council of New York a membership organization of 93 non-profit sponsoring boards that operate more than 200 publicly-funded child care centers and family child care programs in New York City.

  • Child Care Aware of America works with more than 400 state and local Child Care Resource and Referral agencies nationwide.

RESOURCES

 
 
 

For Mothers, Families, & Parents

FINDING CARE

  • NYC Childcare Navigator: A localized search tool designed to help New York City families find accessible, quality childcare.

  • Childcare.gov: Find licensed childcare programs, financial assistance options, and family resources across your state.

ORGANIZATIONS

  • Parenting for Liberation - Connecting, inspiring, and uplifting Black families through liberated parenting.

  • MomsRising - an on-the-ground and online grassroots organization of more than a million people who are working to achieve economic security for all moms, women, and families in the United States.

  • Mothering Justice - Empowering mothers to engage fellow mothers around a variety of issues that affect working families.

READING & LEARNING

 
 
 

For Supporters, Advocates & Allies

ANTI-RACISM & EDUCATIONAL TOOLS

  • Promise the Children: A volunteer-led advocacy organization raising awareness and mobilizing support for low-income families and early childhood educators.

COMMUNITY CARE & MUTUAL AID IN PRACTICE

ORGANIZATIONS

  • National Women’s Law Center - fights for gender justice in the courts, in public policy and in our society, especially for women and girls facing multiple forms of discrimination.

  • Childcare Changemakers - Parents, educators and providers coming together to make high quality early education and care available to every child and family.

RESOURCES

 
 

REFRAME MOTHERING

Watch and share conversations that center Black mothers and reframe narratives around mothering and caregiving.

 

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